My favourite bits of Life Is Strange are the sitting around bits. You know, when Max decides she wants to rest her legs and plops down on the ground next to a convenient tree to lean against and thinks about how weird everything is now that she s got time travel powers. Wonderfully, they re back in Life Is Strange 2 and even better! they re still very good.

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With Assassin s Creed Odyssey just around the corner, I find myself thinking back to last year s entry in the series, Origins. It was packed full of side quests and collectables and set pieces in short, everything we ve come to expect from a Ubisoft open world adventure. But one moment in my playthrough still stands out to me. It was almost entirely unscripted, driven by my own exploration, and because this is an Assassin s Creed game we re talking about involves a dead body.

Spoilers for Assassin s Creed Origins and Revelations below the cut.

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If you were to hear that a digital collectable card game like Hearthstone is going to bring something out in a paper format, you would probably expect a run of physical cards. But that s not what Blizzard has gone for instead, they re producing a pop-up book, very simply called The Hearthstone Pop-up Book.

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Park management sim The Eldritch Zookeeper looks totally normal if you ask me. You keep a zoo full of very ordinary animals and invite people to come and see them, just like any other zoo. Okay, sure, you ve been cursed by a skeleton in a sharp suit, but who among us hasn t? Just take a look at these extremely typical mind-possessing llama friends:

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A new Minecraft spin-off game will delve into the blockworld as a dungeon-crawler in 2019, developers Mojang announced this weekend during their MineCon fan event. Minecraft: Dungeons is its name, and whacking monsters is its game. Inspired by “classic dungeon crawler games”, they say, it’ll send up to four players to whack and stab and thwipp and zap through Minecrafty levels and monsters, grabbing whatever loot’s not nailed down. Have a peek in the announcement trailer below.

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Sundays are for realising that telling the internet what you’re up to every Sunday is boring, so making stuff up instead. I’m tobogganing down Mt. Everest with Jennifer Aniston, while reading the best writing about video games from the past week.

On Kotaku, Cameron Kunzelman spoke to a YouTuber who’s using Cities: Skylines to illustrate the politics that govern infrastructure. Some of the talk about water management is inevitably dry, but I like that Justin Roczniak’s original stab at presenting a historically accurate account of city building quickly turned into rampant leftist propaganda. Turns out they’re basically the same thing. (more…)

Search engine and all around web giant Google famously love to put hidden features in their products, and a few days ago a new easter egg was discovered: a full text adventure game hidden away in the dev console. The game sees you playing as a big blue G and searching for your friends, the other colourful letters that make up the Google logo.

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The Overwatch League s inaugural season victors, the London Spitfire, might have played all of their main season matches at Blizzard s arena in Burbank, California, but they still courted a local following, including adopting the quintessentially English It s coming home messaging before winning the finals. Now, the unspecified ‘it’ will be ‘them,’ as they’ll be visiting London for two weeks this October.

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Valve have responded to some raised eyebrows regarding a recently revealed card for their upcoming game Artifact by changing its name. What was once called Crack The Whip will now become Coordinated Assault to avoid connotations of slavery and racism when considered alongside the card s text, which begins “modify a black hero.”

To be clear, black cards do not refer to race, but are a gameplay classification alongside blue, green, and red. Nonetheless, Valve clearly agrees that it carried unfortunate implications and have adjusted it accordingly.

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Early access top-down shooter Geneshift is, to quote their own marketing materials, hopping on the [Battle Royale] bandwagon today, and you ll be able to play the new mode for free. It s got some twists that set it apart from your Fortnites and Plunkbats, too, like each round lasting only two minutes. You can get a feel for the action in the trailer below:

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